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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Susan Sontag

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

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